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Prairie Clean Energy among funded projects to enhance Canada’s mining sector

Saskatchewan bioenergy company Prairie Clean Energy is among the project recipients funded by the federal Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator Network.

The company is receiving $1,100,000 boost for its $23-million project to use local biomass to reduce the carbon intensity of heat consumption in Saskatchewan’s potash sector up to 80 per cent.

Prairie Clean Energy’s biomass processing technology produces solid biofuel from agriculture and forestry residues.

The company is working towards establishing the world’s first commercial flax straw processing plant in Regina.

Editor’s note: Read our profile story on Prairie Clean Energy.